A grieving woman has blasted the "disgusting" state of Newhall Cemetery after grass was churned up where her father was buried just six months ago.

Angry family members have spoken out after a digger left large tractor-like markings down a cemetery gangway between dozens of graves.

Tracey Toone, whose house overlooks the cemetery, has revealed her heartbreak after she said the machine left marks right over her father's newly-laid grave - which was dug less than six months ago.

Ms Toone, 51, who works at Dorothy Perkins in Burton, said: "I am absolutely gutted, they have driven right over my dad's grave which is not even six months old yet and is still finding its level. How disrespectful.

Kay Holmes took this picture of the churned-up ground

"The old crew that used to do it used to use the pathways but the new crew are going straight through the middle of the graves.

"The most upsetting part is that it goes straight through the middle of where my father, John Toone, is buried.

"They also used to clear away all the dead grass and it's just lying there now.